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Regex parse

FECL3
8 - Asteroid

How would I regex parse this data so I have two columns, one with the words and the other with the digits? They have uneven spaces between the characters too. 

 

Please see attached

 

 

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atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Hi @FECL3 

 

The process would be to clear duplicate spaces with data cleasing tool.

 

And here is the regex config

atcodedog05_0-1606154924088.png

Output:

atcodedog05_0-1606155005598.png

Workflow:

atcodedog05_1-1606155018687.png

 

Hope this helps 🙂 Hope this what you are looking for is not let me know i can help


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PhilipMannering
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

@atcodedog05 Pretty sure that your regex will leave lots of trailing spaces

atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

@PhilipMannering 

 

My first step was to use data cleansing tool to remove duplicate, leading and trailing space 

hence it should be able to handle it 😅

FECL3
8 - Asteroid

Thank you - works a treat!

 

atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Happy to help 🙂 @FECL3 

 

Cheers and Happy Analyzing 😀

 

Feel free to reach out if you face any issues 🙂

FECL3
8 - Asteroid

If one of the lines was a negative number where the digits would typically be - how would I adapt the regex parse. Thanks in advance

atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Hi @FECL3 

 

I have modified the regex to handle it.

 

(.*)\s(-?\d*)

I modified the current data to have negative number.

 

Output:

atcodedog05_0-1606156771805.png

 

 Hope this helps 🙂

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